We listened to the Michael Decan podcast last night. The privileged people are freaking out about corona virus partly because they can't control it or easily down load the risks onto the lower classes. Admittedly they've done their very best on that last bit. The monied classes are used to being able to buffer themselves from whatever misfortunes hit the rest of us. Working class people are used to having to manage and just live with all kinds of things they can't control. I've also observed repeatedly over the last year and a bit that it seems to okay if young people O.D. on opioids (death by technology) and absolutely outrageous that anyone, even people in their 9th or 10th decade, die of a disease (biology). Man the Conquerer of Nature has dropped the ball and that just can't be tolerated.
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The privileged freakout
Date: 2021-04-26 05:52 pm (UTC)The privileged people are freaking out about corona virus partly because they can't control it or easily down load the risks onto the lower classes. Admittedly they've done their very best on that last bit. The monied classes are used to being able to buffer themselves from whatever misfortunes hit the rest of us. Working class people are used to having to manage and just live with all kinds of things they can't control.
I've also observed repeatedly over the last year and a bit that it seems to okay if young people O.D. on opioids (death by technology) and absolutely outrageous that anyone, even people in their 9th or 10th decade, die of a disease (biology). Man the Conquerer of Nature has dropped the ball and that just can't be tolerated.